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Thursday, October 20, 2005

Sacred Places, Sacred Plants

Tobacco is a sacred plant among many Native American nations. One way it is used is in the sacred pipe ceremony. Some traditions use it as 10% of the pipe mixture.

Another common way tobacco is used is in making prayer ties. The meditation is that you put your prayers into the ties as you are making them and then offer them to a sacred fire, hang them out in nature, or use them in various ceremonies.

A devotee should not see anything as being separate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. Ether, fire, air, water, earth, the sun and other luminaries, all living beings, the directions, trees and other plants, the rivers and oceans -- whatever a devotee experiences he should consider to be an expansion of Krsna.
Thus seeing everything that exists within creation as the body of the Supreme Lord, Hari, the devotee should offer his sincere respects to the entire expansion of the Lord's body.

Rabindranath Tagore:

A mind all logic
is like a knife all blade.
The hand that uses it will bleed.